Bonnemaisonia dorsifera (C.Agardh) Endlicher 1843

Current name:
Callophycus dorsiferus (C.Agardh) P.C.Silva
Harvey, W.H. (1849). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic r
Publication Details
Bonnemaisonia dorsifera (C.Agardh) Endlicher 1843: 44
Published in: Endlicher, S.L. (1843). Mantissa botanica altera. Sistens genera plantarum supplementum tertium. pp. [vi], 111. Vienna: Fridericum Beck, Universitatis Bibliopola.
Publication date: 1843
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Bonnemaisonia is Bonnemaisonia asparagoides (Woodward) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Callophycus dorsiferus (C.Agardh) P.C.Silva.
Source of Synonymy
Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: [i]-xiv, 1-1259.
Basionym
Rhodomela dorsifera C.Agardh
Type Information
Type locality: "ad oras novae Hollandiae"; (Silva & al. 1996: 328) Holotype: PC, Herb. Agardh, LD (part); 25552 (Womersley 1994: 335) Notes: Part in Herb. Agardh, LD, 25552.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 26 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 21 February 2024
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 21 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 March 2025